Don't Be A Stranger To Yourself

Born through a challenging process into a cold, harsh world, we must learn to breathe within seconds to stay alive.

Around us are a group of strangers cheering our success for making it.

How do we know ourselves at this early stage?

Perhaps at one level, we know we are connected to a life-giving source that has no name but plays an influential role in our survival.

Our self-perception quickly develops as we fit into our family.

Even without words, our sense of how to get taken care of grows exponentially.

We develop a grounding in who we think we are based on self-perception and interpretation fuelled by the teaching of the adults around us.

Our sense of deservedness, our belief we are owed something, our drive for success at any cost are part of the system focusing us on thinking we know who we are without a shred of evidence.

By the time we are six or seven, our ego-mind is well developed and directs us with self-talk about acting and getting what we want.

Who we think we are is based on the norms and beliefs of those who teach us.

We go through our life with strategies, self-beliefs, and behaviours without examining their efficacy or validity.

We are, at the level of truth, strangers to ourselves.

We go to school, enter a career and get into relationships in which we do not understand or know who we are or what we bring.

Mid-life, it seems, is when the more profound knowing of our soul may get our attention.

Perhaps there is a traumatic event that stops us in our tracks and shakes up our lives.

I have conducted my self-study for many years without the consciousness of realizing what I was doing.

You would think failures in school, divorce, addiction, and loss of one kind or another would stop me in my tracks. No, these events, by themselves, do not have the power to change my life course.

The experience of a life-threatening cancer was the experience that stopped me in my tracks.

The life question became, "Who am I?"

No matter your status, your wealth, or circumstances, this most critical question pulls at your heartstrings.

Are you a stranger to yourself?

Do you suffer from anxiety?

Does your inner voice say, "I don't like who I am anymore?"

Do you wake up worrying and addictively try to control every part of your life?

Stop and take some reflective time to get to know the truth of who you are.

Don't be a stranger to yourself.

Namaste